The ex-supervisor of America’s largest town abruptly retired from local government last week, the day after it surfaced he’d been moved to a cushy $180,000-a-year municipal post — at a defunct department.

Don Clavin first suddenly resigned as the Town of Hempstead’s supervisor in the middle of a board meeting Aug. 5, stunning residents and political observers.

Town officials only said at the time that he had been assigned to another municipal job — refusing to spill the beans on his new position or salary. 6

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Local Democrats claimed that Clavin, a Republican, stepped aside as supervisor to make room for another GOPer, John Ferretti, to take his place — and was rewarded with the shadowy new post.

With public pressure mounting on the Republicans to explain themselves, Hemp

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